You’re being deliberately incendiary and you’re saying like the simplest thing. Why might they be buying trash food? Why didn’t their parents teach them not to? Why is the shit food so addictive? Is it, perhaps, the cheapest way to get something tasty? Maybe there are underlying social problems, and that’s more interesting to discuss than “poor people are stupid and gluttonous.”

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FirmwareBurner 4 days ago | parent [-]

>You’re being deliberately incendiary

Which part was "incendiary"?

>you’re saying like the simplest thing

The truth is often simple, people are just too scared to confront it. So they call it "incendiary".

>Is it, perhaps, the cheapest way to get something tasty?

Healthy food is also tasty and cheaper than highly processed junk food. But it's easier to blame externalities than take accountability.

>Maybe there are underlying social problems, and that’s more interesting to discuss than “poor people are stupid and gluttonous.”

Why aren't poor people in poorer countries fat despite suffering even bigger social issue like war, slavery, rapes and famine?

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BriggyDwiggs42 3 days ago | parent [-]

Companies make tons of shit food that’s as cheap or cheaper than healthy things, while requiring no know-how or effort to prepare, and constantly bombard people with messaging telling them to buy it. Meanwhile people are overworked with less time and energy to prepare food. People aren’t raised to be considerate about the food they eat; many parents don’t teach their kids to cook and feed them tons of junk growing up. Of course under those circumstances a large portion of people eat shitty. Fix that stuff and they won’t eat shitty and get fat. It’s useless to blame them without suggesting actual fixes.

>Why aren't poor people in poorer countries fat despite suffering even bigger social issue like war, slavery, rapes and famine?

Famine

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FirmwareBurner 3 days ago | parent [-]

>with less time and energy to prepare food

People on food stamps have a lot of free time.

	▲	BriggyDwiggs42 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Prove it. https://www.cbpp.org/research/most-working-age-snap-particip... >Over half of individuals who were participating in SNAP in a typical month in mid-2012 were working in that month. Let’s be generous and say that the other half have a lot of free time (they don’t, many are searching for a job while taking care of a family), and that the tiktok you saw only showed that other half. The parts of my comment you didn’t respond to may still be the explanation, rather than the sheer gluttony of the poor or something.